Yay!

Thanks, Shir.

BABY!!!

NILLYNEWBORN SIGHTING! Yay, Shir, thanks for being our proxy.

I have had some super great conversations in airports/airplanes. Once I met a lady who was terrified of flying but loved loved SYTYCD and we spent the whole (truly horrible) flight distracting her and had a great convo. She lives in Santa Fe, and if it had been later, when social networking was prominent, I would definitely have kept touch with her. She was a Buffista spirit baby for sure.

Once I had a difficult but really good conversation with a bluesman who was flying home to attend the funeral of his brother who'd just been shot. He was this amazing, successful musician, and his brother was still stuck in the projects and was the victim of gang violence. Heartbreaking.

And this last time, I got into this really fun, life-affirming sort of freewheeling conversation with a woman who was headed back home to India for the first time since she'd been married (in the States, but to the appropriate, parentally approved person, ha!) who does clinical oncology studies and a guy from New York who runs a veterans advocacy program.

Afterwards I got on the plane and was all, "Who am I?"

I'm a headphones in, book to read, don't talk to me flyer. Shoot, even when I have to turn off all my electronic devices, I leave the headphones in. In the airport, on the other hand, I don't mind being social. Maybe cause I can walk away if need be.

NILLYNEWBORN!!!

I have over 30 hours on my timesheet and it isn't even mid-day Wednesday yet. I'm hoping (really hoping) I can take Friday off. I'm still helping to cover for one of my PMs who is out on berevement. He is due back tomorrow.

Nillybaby!! Can't wait to see pictures!

I'm discovering that I really am more extroverted than I think. Meeting new people is genuinely fun and interesting for me. I mean, not always -- I have to be in the right mood; they have to not be jerks -- but generally it's a good thing for me. I was telling M the other day that I feel bad that I have several social things to go to on a regular basis and he doesn't have any, and he was all, "Uh, that's because I don't need or really want them, and you do!" Oh yeah.

I'm pretty sure I can't afford the neurostimulator. It's still being remarkably difficult to find the cost of the procedure, but 20% is a pretty big percentage, and there are two procedures and we're definitely looking at five figures.

Well, at least I know.

Nillybaby (held by Nilly)! [link]

Husband has a start date in Houston. Amen.

Yay Nillybaby!

Yay Houston!

Boo healthcare. How's it going with the home nurse?

My coworker just gave a multimedia debrief on her vacation. Heh.

Baby is adorable. Unsurprisingly.

YAY Houston!! Can you share the date yet?

I have reached the hurry up and wait portion of my work day. I sent out a bunch of questions and NO ONE is answering me. Come on people!!!